Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in Charlottesville Saturday when a man rammed his car into a crowd of protesters who had gathered in opposition to the “Unite the Right” rally, and when asked Tuesday if that was an act of terrorism, the president responded that the driver was a murder but to go further would be to get into “legal semantics.”

Sen. Marco Rubio, who was among the first to criticize the president’s statement Saturday, didn’t hesitate to call the attack terrorism in a hashtag.

Will Rubio again be dismissed by a “cynical” New York Times reporter as “posturing for 2020”? Probably. But that doesn’t explain the reaction of Sen. Orrin Hatch, who also criticized Saturday’s statement.